Chapter 7!

I wonder what day it is? What type of day it is? Is the sun out or is it rainy? I hardly see anyone now. I hear them talking. That's it. Although I think it was a few days ago (I've lost track of time.) they gave me a notebook and some pens and pencils. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the notebook. But, it's there and just the thought keeps me sane. I wonder whether anybody even remembers me. I mean I remember Max, Jamie, My mum, Billie and Nick but do they remember me. Do they even know I'm missing? How long have I been missing? I wonder whether they were looking and it has been so long that they have just given up? Would they ever give up? Man, I wish I hadn't been so foolish and run off on the guards assigned to me. Mum was probably really mad when she found out about the guards losing me.

Wait is that the sound of the door been opened? It's to early for tea. Holy Fuck am I going to have contact with another person. Cool. It has to have been ten breakfasts ago that they gave me my notebook; they did it in person. Oh, I'm using meal times to keep some type of time system. I open my eyes to see Ezrafe standing above me. I try to look past him but he maneuvers so I can't. I decide that I might as well smile. Pleasantries go a long way I've found. Ezrafe scowls at my smile and I think that's rude. Or am I just losing my mind.

"Get up." Ezrafe orders. Hell no. I'm not doing what he says. "Now, Shallow or you will experience excruciating pain."

"Am I supposed to be scared?" I enquire.

"Very funny, now get up."

"You didn't laugh so it mustn't have been that funny."

"Enough of this. Get up."

"I don't respond well to orders."

"You'll just have to learn to respond well to orders."

"Why, are you going to hold me here forever."

"Probably not."

"Oh. Well you know the best way to get a rouse out of Max would be to tell him I no longer want to leave."

"Is that true. And how do you know we are asking Max for the ransom."

"I've heard the men talking outside my cell." I explain.

"Okay. Very good."

"I could help you get the ransom from Max. That's if you really want the money. Because Max will find a way to get me back and keep his money."

"Well, why would you do that?"

"'Cause I'm losing my mind being kept in this cell with no human contact." I confess to him.

"I'll consider it. Only if you will get up now." Ezrafe states. Damn him. I reluctantly get off the bed. I'm then marched out of the room.

When we exit the room there are two other men waiting outside who fall in step behind me. We go down the hall way and stop at the end at a heavy wood door. Ezrafe takes a key out of his pocket and inserts it into the keyhole. Once he has unlocked the door he opens it and ushers me inside Bowman and Octavius stay outside (they were the two other men). Immediately after I step over the threshold Ezrafe closes and locks the door. Then turning to me says, "Please have a seat." Pointing to a chair, which is in the middle of the room.

"Why?" I enquire.

"'Cause I said so."

"Oh. It doesn't mean I will."

"I assure you will eventually have a seat. Whether it is voluntarily or forced. So have a seat."

"Let me think about this." I pause. "Why would I choose to sit voluntarily? How would you force me to sit?" I enquire if Ezrafe.

"We have a lot of resources. That might seem a tad barbaric to the common individual." Ezrafe responds.

"What type of resources?"

"Do you really want to find out? If you do just keep standing." He says in a menacing undertone. Gulp. Reluctantly sit down in the seat. Which is a straight-backed wood chair. What the hell do they want? I guess I'm about to find out. I notice that there is a chair in the corner of the room and that Ezrafe is heading over to sit in that chair. Once he is seated he calls out, "Okay start the tape." What tape? Is it a videotape or a voice recording?